Stockholm Syndrome of the Soul
Your #1 Newsletter for Accelerated Learning. The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. —...
The 30 Point Checklist to Accelerate Your Learning
What follows is a true story with a hook, and a checklist to accelerate your learning at the end. It’s easy to talk about “accelerated learning” but hard to implement it. This story and checklist will help you...
You’re Not An X-er Unless You Regularly X
People like titles. Titles are rational, useful tools. Titles make it easy for us to tie our identity to something and make it easy for others to infer things about us. They signal things about us that we want...
You Have to Show Up. Every. Day.
Breaking Down and Showing Up. There’s an old Woody Allen quotation that “80% of success is just showing up.” This quotation is used to motivate people to get started on what they want to achieve and has even helped...
The Central Habit of Highly Successful People
Be Obsessive. Originally posted on Quora by Nicolas Cole. I am obsessive. When I wake, I… pull the covers off my leg the same way I do every morning, with one familiar swoop that drags over my bare legs. I stand...
What’s the Difference Between a Mentor, an Advisor, and a Coach?
Each Plays a Unique Role It feels like every day I meet a new person who claims they are a coach, a startup mentor, or asking to be an advisor (full disclosure, I am an advisor to several education startups...
Your Email Newsletter Sucks. Here’s How to Improve It.
A great email newsletter can be like an ATM to a company. A bad email newsletter can cause sleepless nights for a CMO and angry meetings for a CEO. Chances are, your newsletter falls into the second category....
5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Daily to Achieve Success
Originally appeared on Quora by Nicolas Cole. Constant improvement is not easy. Whether it is a skill, a positive quality, or a way of life you are looking to cultivate, staying on the positive side of the growth...
How Your Brand Can Execute With Video
Video trends for your 2018 roadmap, including branded content for influencer marketing I. Setting the Stage Video is so hot right now. Everyone’s either building a video platform, has some new content strategy to...
The Mission News: August 7, 2017
No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick D.D Life & Learning Ever wonder how 20 million bananas make...